On two different occasions during the pursuit -- which reached speeds of 70 mph -- Nevarez rammed two Citrus Heights police cruisers, according to deputies.

Two officers fired multiple shots at the woman, officials said.

"Officers felt their lives were in imminent danger and they fired on her," said Brian Fritsch of the Citrus Heights Police Department.

Nevarez died at the scene.

"Her and her grandma had gotten into an argument and she took her grandma's keys, and her grandma told her not to, and she left and her grandma called the cops," said the driver's ex-girlfriend Hailey Kraushe of the events leading up to the incident.

Sheriff's officials said no weapons were found on the woman.

The Sacramento County Sheriff's Department is handling the investigation.